Sophie Hunter, the fiancee of Oscar-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, meanwhile, caused much fracas when she attended Valentino hiding her baby bump.

But it was surely Naomi Campbell who stole the show, strutting out panther-like at Jean Paul Gaultier despite being dressed as a bouquet of flowers. It’s good to know that high fashion still retains its humour.

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Jean Paul Gaultier chose to explore marriage in white — and divorce, in black — for his first couture show after the end of his ready-to-wear line.

The obvious symbolism was renewal, or change — after bidding an emotional goodbye last season to his over-three-decade long “pret-a-porter” career.
But there was no soul searching whatsoever in this infectious and imaginative show.

Gaultier, ever the optimist, said that the end of the ready-to-wear had given him more time to “perfect the techniques and the work of the atelier, which was unbelievable” — such as a trompe l’oeil dress resembling python skins, which was, in reality, embroidered silk knots.

Model Naomi Campbell and French designer Jean Paul Gaultier walk the runway at the end of his show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2015 on January 28, 2015 in Paris, France. [Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images]

Whatever this aging enfant terrible does, one thing is a constant: Fun.

Burlesque star Von Teese and Eurovision Song contest winner Conchita Wurst were among celebrity guests escorted to sections named after wedding anniversaries: amethyst for 6 years, jade for 12 years, emerald for 20 years — and the unromantic-sounding granite, for the near-impossible 90-year-celebration.

GAULTIER GOES TO THE CHAPEL

A model walks the runway during the Jean Paul Gaultier show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2015 on January 28, 2015 in Paris, France. [AP Photo/Thibault Camus]

The show, almost exclusively in black and white, was a tale of two silhouettes — with many dresses split down the middle.

The best look was a figure-hugging black crepe number with another gown, in trompe l’oeil 3-D hourglass tulle, placed creatively on the front.

The 62-year-old designer said show celebrated “all forms of marriage, and for all ages, and as many times as you want… And, yes divorce.”

This mantra was resoundingly clear: in his signature menswear tuxedos (representing gay marriage) and in the inclusion of models up to their 60s; a common theme.

Models walk the runway during the Jean Paul Gaultier show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2015 on January 28, 2015 in Paris, France. [Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images]

The divorce element appeared as a comic homage to the infamous seven weddings of actress Liz Taylor — with a blue python dress and feathered hair piece, modelled theatrically.

The couturier said, in an aside, that divorce and multiple marriages may indeed help boost couture dress sales.

Models walk the runway during the Jean Paul Gaultier show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2015 on January 28, 2015 in Paris, France. [Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images]

Silhouettes were often graphic, with more than an echo of his Eighties heyday.

It might have benefited more if Monsieur Gaultier had used this fresh chapter in his career to do something completely different — but in all, it was a joyful collection.

VALENTINO’S CHAGALL-INSPIRED COUTURE

A model walks the runway during the Valentino show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2015 on January 28, 2015 in Paris, France. [Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images]

It was a strong couture collection from Valentino’s Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli that moved gracefully from the dense, geometric embroideries of Hungarian styles to the bright colours and cosmic dreaming of Russian artist Marc Chagall.

But the high point of the show was surely the final flourish of diaphanous powder-coloured gowns with chic embroidered writing. They were aptly called “tulle clouds” and felt at once both couture and highly contemporary.

Valentino Garavani looked on approvingly from the front row, as some 47 looks filed by inside the chic Hotel de Rothschild.

A model walks the runway during the Valentino show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2015 on January 28, 2015 in Paris, France. [AP Photo/Christophe Ena]

A model walks the runway during the Valentino show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2015 on January 28, 2015 in Paris, France. [Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images]

The designers did not do away with their signature Empire lines and continued their ongoing musings in the traditional flowing silks and silhouettes of the Renaissance.

But the muse of Chagall served well as a spring board to liberate the occasionally-stiff designs.

A model walks the runway during the Elie Saab show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2015 on January 28, 2015 in Paris, France. [Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images]

Elie Saab moved in a welcome direction in Wednesday’s delicately feminine display — inspired, apparently, by the nostalgia of his mother’s Seventies heyday.

In a fleshed out program book, the Lebanese designer touchingly went back in time through text and photos, tracing the fashions throughout the eras of his birth city, Beirut — once graced by such stars as singer Dalida, actor Omar Sharif and French icon Brigitte Bardot.

In particular, Saab described the impact of the last golden years of glamor before the protracted Civil war in 1975, through the prism of a tulip print silk dress his mother would often wear.

Models walk the runway during the Elie Saab show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2015 on January 28, 2015 in Paris, France. [AP Photo/Christophe Ena]

Flesh pink, beige, black and blue-greys abounded in floaty, nostalgic silhouettes that touched on these moments.